clavicled
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[edit]clavicled (not comparable)
- Having a clavicle or clavicles; (in combination) having a specified kind of clavicle.
- Synonym: collarboned
- 1752, John Hill, “Murex”, in An History of Animals. […], London: Printed for Thomas Osborne, […], →OCLC, page 146:
- Of thoſe which have the body of the ſhell beſet with tubercles and ſpines, there are, beſide the before deſcribed, 1. The Murex, with a depreſſed clavicle, the body covered with large, black ſpines. 2. The long, clavicled, greyiſh Murex, with black ſpines, and a plicated ſurface between them.
- 2012, Hester Browne, The Runaway Princess, New York, NY: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 110:
- He was with an older man who looked like a film star and one of those glamorous, sharp-clavicled Hollywood women whose faces set at forty-four and don't change until they die.